Lethean
- a word derived from Lethe.
Example Sentences
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It's less a lethal than a Lethean weapon, ie something resembling the river Lethe's mind-numbing waters which induce eternal forgetfulness of everything but better films on the same subject.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2010
Her ministers had a sweet Lethean draught with which to lull the first clamors of awakening life, to quiet the first promptings of individual thought.
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward
Lethean spring thou'rt only found Within this ideal hunting ground.
From Flint and Feather by Johnson, E. Pauline
You ask me, friend, Why I don't send The long since due-and-paid-for numbers; Why, songless, I As drunken lie Abandoned to Lethean slumbers.
From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Field, Roswell Martin
And angels came, with silent dew, Her throbbing brow to lave; And gentle sleep her spirits steep'd, Within the Lethean wave.
From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Hanna, Abigail Stanley
